19] – Election
Debrief: Next Steps for the Progressive Movement will be hosted by the
Institute for Policy Studies, 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW, 6th Floor, WDC, on Wed.,
Nov. 9 from 12:30 to 2 PM. Come to a forum of leaders in the
progressive movement sharing fresh perspectives about next steps for action for
the next four years and beyond. The election is over. Racism, xenophobia,
corporate greed, climate change, inequities and inequality – too name just a
few challenges – are still with us.

Join an
informed and dynamic panel and be a participating audience member in an
interaction. Panelists are Steve Cobble, Progressive Democrats of
America Co-founder and IPS Associate Fellow; Flavia
Jimenez, Advancement Project Senior Attorney and Project Director of
Immigrant Justice; Alan Barber, Center for Economic and Policy Research
(CEPR) Director of Domestic Policy; Jonathan Hutto, Prince George’s County
Maryland People’s Coalition Coordinator; and Phyllis Bennis, IPS New
Internationalism Director and IPS Fellow. The evening will be
moderated by John Cavanagh, Director of IPS. RSVP at http://act.ips-dc.org/site/Calendar?id=100762&view=Detail.

A Vision
of an Inclusive Economy in the Age of Pope Francis and Recurring Financial
Crisis and A Religious View Towards Building an Economic System that Protects
the Vulnerable and Promotes Universal Prosperity on Wed., Nov. 9 from 6:30 to
8:30 PM at Heritage Hall, Father O’Connell Hall, Catholic University of
America, 620 Michigan Ave. NE, WDC 20064. In the wake of the global financial
crisis, international institutions are focusing on crisis prevention and
addressing inequality. While there is broad agreement on the causes of these
world-wide problems, solutions continue to be debated. Pope Francis, during his
2015 address to the United Nations, was specific in the need to resolve debt
and financial crisis through predictable processes and policies. For twenty
years the Catholic Church and most major faith groups advocated for a "Jubilee"
and raised awareness on the impact of financial crisis on the most
vulnerable. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi's lecture explores what it
means to build an inclusive financial system and address the structural causes
of extreme poverty. His comments will reflect on how tax, trade and debt
policies can and should address these issues.

RSVP to
Darby Finch at policy@jubileeusa.org
or (202) 783-3566 x106. The sponsors are Office of International Justice and
Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic University of
America Institute for Policy Research and Jubilee USA.

20] – On Wed., Nov. 9 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, come to a teach-in,
in preparation for the upcoming NPI protest (an "Alt Right" Fascist
hate group who meets in DC). The teach-in will be held at the Woodridge
Library, 180o1 Hamlin St. NE, WDC 20018, will be about fascism, racism, and
resistance; and the night will end with a dance party.

Speakers may include Aaron Goggans, of Black Lives Matter DC, Walda
Katz-Fishman of Howard University, Mike Stark of the International Socialist
Organization, and Scott Green of the DC Anti-fascist Coalition. Trump’s rise
has given voice to a brutal side of the US population. It’s emboldened the
racist violence that oppresses people of color, divides us from each other, and
keeps us from making a common fight for freedom and equity. These same forces
have also been felt in Europe with the rise of anti-immigrant policy,
racist politicians, and new hate groups. Trumpism is powered by groups like the
National Policy Institute (NPI), a white nationalist “think-tank” that has been
designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They will be
holding their white supremacist conference in DC the weekend of November
18th-20th, 2016. A coalition of activists will be protesting in the streets.

NPI is one of the worst. Richard Spencer, who coined the term “Alt Right” and
heads the group, calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" in order to protect
European culture, and forced sterilization to reverse the "degenerative"
effect of a growing "non-white population." Spencer was banned from
visiting the United Kingdom and arrested in Hungary for his Nazi-like views.
NPI has been trying to influence the US conservative movement, and has been
energized by the Trump candidacy. NPI openly supports Trump, Trumpism, and the
racism, white supremacy, sexism, and Islamophobia that goes with it.

2015 saw a 14% increase in hate groups according to the Southern Poverty Law
Center. These haters love Trump, and all the terrible things he has said about
Mexicans, women, Muslims, and others. Members of hate groups have terrorized,
like in the racist Immanuel AME killings in Charleston, South Carolina,
anti-Jewish killings in Olathe, Kansas, sexist killings at a Planned Parenthood
in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and other tragedies that have occurred just
within this last year.

21] – See a free screening of “Neurotypical” [directed by Adam
Larsen, 2013, 52 minutes] on Wed., Nov. 9 at 6:30 PM at the Congress
Hotel, first floor, 306 W. Franklin St., Baltimore 21204. The film is
always on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, same time and place. This
event is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series Point of
View, from the Public Broadcasting Service. Go to www.pbs.org/pov. RSVPs are
appreciated but not mandatory--http://www.meetup.com/Charm-City-Film-Series/events/233725806/. “Neurotypical”is a rare film among
documentaries about autism. It relates the experiences of this neurological
condition from the point of view of autistics themselves. Via the worlds of
4-year-old Violet, teenager Nicholas and middle-aged wife and mother Paula,
along with provocative interviews with other autistics, the film recounts the
challenges they face living among “normal” people–whom many of them call “neurotypicals.”

But the film goes further, revealing the wide spectrum of autism
and the creative adaptations people use to “pass” in the normal world. It
throws a searching, often comic light on what defines the “normal” mind and
calls attention to the subject of neurodiversity as an urgent and multi-layered
issue within the 21st-century civil rights debate. Autistics have hardly ever
been heard like this. Says one, “I look at neurotypical life and I’m sorry, I
really don’t want to be one of you.”

Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has
always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to
lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to
lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs